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I'm using vim for C programming and I have a question about jumping to the next/previous character. I can use f or F to jump to the next or previous character correspondingly. But this does not work with multiline.

The problem I'm trying to solve is to jump to the previous { or next } to quickly get to the function signature I'm currently looking at.

St.Antario
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    If you are specifically interested in moving to { and }, this would be [[ and ][. Have a look at :h 29.3, paragraph MOVING IN CODE BLOCKS. Also this answer by me gives some more context about them. – Hotschke Nov 18 '18 at 08:53
  • If you want that fFtT are not restricted to the current line, there are several plugins which provide this and additional functionality: vim-fanfingtastic, improvedft, vim-extended-ft, clever-f.vim and probably more. – Hotschke Nov 18 '18 at 09:02
  • Some other popular plugins related to moving across lines without using /? are easymotion and vim-sneak. – Hotschke Nov 18 '18 at 09:06
  • @Hotschke Very cool, thanks. Works exactly as desired! – St.Antario Nov 18 '18 at 09:06
  • You are welcome. However, your actual question is a duplicate of https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/8221/jumping-to-start-end-of-function-definition-in-c. Your title is an XY problem even though it is a valid request. Your actual movement question is about moving to the beginning and end of a C function which you wisely added to the body of the question. But also the question asked in the title exists already: https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/4486/expand-f-and-t-motion-to-next-lines. Therefore I am in favour of marking this question as a duplicate. – Hotschke Nov 18 '18 at 09:18

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